Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
Representations of Working-Class Masculinities in Post-War British Culture: The Left Behind
1st Edition
By Matthew Crowley
September 30, 2021
This book presents an analysis of representations of white, heterosexual, working-class masculinities in British culture between 1945 and 1989 to trace the development of the sociocultural and material conditions that shaped the masculinities which are helping to shape contemporary culture.This ...
Cultural Reflections of Medusa: The Shadow in the Glass
1st Edition
By Jennifer Hedgecock
August 02, 2021
This project studies the patterns in which the Medusa myth shapes, constructs, and transforms new meanings of women today, correlating portrayals in ancient Greek myth, nineteenth- century Symbolist painting, and new, controversial, visions of women in contemporary art.The myth of the Medusa has ...
Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians
1st Edition
By Abigail Gardner
June 30, 2021
Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music. It argues that context, genres, memoirs, racial politics and place all contribute to how women are 'aged' in popular music.Framing contemporary female musicians as canonical grandmothers, Rude Girls, ...
Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness
1st Edition
By Katie Horowitz
June 30, 2021
This story of drag kings and queens at Cleveland, Ohio’s most popular gay bar reveals that these genres have little in common and introduces interperformance, a framework for identity formation and coalition building that provides strategies for repairing longstanding rifts in the LGBT ...
Feminism, Republicanism, Egalitarianism, Environmentalism: Bill of Rights and Gendered Sustainable Initiatives
1st Edition
By Yulia Maleta
June 30, 2021
This book addresses hegemonic ruling class masculinity and emphasized femininity within renewables organisational governance, and critiques Anglo-Celtic male privilege, as a barrier to women’s leadership participation.Primarily using the Australian socio-political context, the author considers the ...
Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men’s Identity: Literacies of Masculinity
1st Edition
By Robert Mundy, Harry Denny
June 30, 2021
This book considers mass media and contemporary cultural trends to examine masculinity at a point of unprecedented change. While sexual and gender politics have always been fraught, the long unexamined privilege associated with masculinity is now subject to intense scrutiny marked by a host of ...
Men, Caregiving and the Media: The Dad Dilemma
1st Edition
By Sarah C. Hunter, Damien W. Riggs
June 30, 2021
Analysing diverse media representations of men who provide primary care to their children, this book demonstrates how the practice of fatherhood – and of masculinity - is changing, and the ways media representations sensationalise and reinforce gender inequities in regards to carework.This book ...
Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By María José Gámez Fuentes, Sonia Núñez Puente, Emma Gómez Nicolau
June 30, 2021
This volume critically analyses political strategies, civil society initiatives and modes of representation that challenge the conventional narratives of women in contexts of violence. It deepens into the concepts of victimhood and agency that inform the current debate on women as victims. The ...
Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective
1st Edition
By Dianna Taylor
June 30, 2021
This book presents humiliation as a key harm of sexual violence against women, showing that humiliation manifests within the relation of self to itself, and that Foucault’s critique of subjectivity provides resources for feminist conceptualization and countering of sexual violence and ...
Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader
1st Edition
By Karyn Sproles
March 31, 2021
Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader is an interdisciplinary exploration into the profound power of narratives to create—and recreate—how we imagine ourselves. It posits that the process of producing a text also produces the reader. Written from the perspective of a ...
Ungendering Technology: Women Retooling the Masculine Sphere
1st Edition
By Carol J. Haddad
March 31, 2021
This book offers fresh insight into women’s mastery of technologies commonly associated with men, with important implications for institutional efforts to identify and support technical proficiency among girls and women. The work is structured across five original case studies featuring: ...
Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Literature and Film
1st Edition
By Polina Kroik
December 18, 2020
Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women’s workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational ...